ART-DECOR® – Release 3.9.5
Release notes 14 December 2025
Introduction
We are delighted to announce Release 3.9.5. As we are continuously busy to offer / deliver high quality software, we have decided to have another intermediate release that fixes 3 issues we found during intense regression testing and due to client/user reports.
In total, 10 tickets were handled, subsumed in the following paragraphs. This is the Release Note with more details.
Datasets
It was possible to create two datasets with the exact same id and effectiveDate, by performing the creation request twice (on the same day) and using option "Short effectiveDate". Subsequently the user got an unspecified error. This has been fixed so that this is no longer possible [AD30-2172, AD30-2272]. Also, the check function on duplicate datasets has be promoted to the admin system integrity check functions.
False positive warnings were generated by the decor check due to structural changes in concept inheritance, this has been fixed [AD30-2259].
A specific patch for a DECOR project (onco) has been applied [AD30-2266].
Scenarios
The signature for Scenario Smart Cloning function was in error, this has been corrected [AD30-2263].
System Functions
A download of DECOR xml fails with accept header which has been corrected to be application/xml [AD30-2195].
A fiolter on effectiveDate usin g the OID Registry failed, this has been fixed [AD30-2246].
The Compile Development function shall use local-name() instead name() for getting SCH content which has been implemented now [AD30-2261].
ADA (ART-DECOR Applications)
ADA should not apply xs:ID on instance id, only data; this has been fixed [AD30-2245].
Terminology
Preserve terminology and identifier associations upon contain to inherit was desired, this functionality has been implemented [AD30-2278].
Hints for Updating an ART-DECOR® Release for local installations
For all our hosted servers we do planned and announced updates of the server software regarding backend and frontend, comprised of ART-DECOR Vue and ART-DECOR http-proxy.
Please Note
When you have a local installation of ART-DECOR and want to update to this release, please consider reading our Updating an ART-DECOR® Release documentation.
Thank you
A BIG thank you!
We are always thankful for any comments and suggestions.
Special thanks for the feedback regarding the Template Viewer and Editor to the colleagues from ELGA (Austria) and HL7 Italy / Ernst&Young (EY) and for Dataset and Questionnaire editor to the Berlin Institute of Health @ Charité team.
Especially in the terminology and questionnaire sector we got great feedback from the Dutch ICT Institute in Health Care (Nictiz). Thanks to Gunter Haroske working for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Pathologie / German Association of Pathology pointing to shortcomings and missing features in our Questionnaire functions and to the Dutch Uitkomstgerichte Zorg Program for contributions in the same area.
Special thanks also to the mio42 GmbH team, Agence du Numérique en Santé (ANS) and our partners at Kereval / IHE Europe for testing, feature suggestions and bug fix requests.
Please don't hesitate to write us with suggestions for improvements or feature requests to our email address provided for this purpose: feedback@art-decor.org, also easily reachable through the Services Card at our ART-DECOR landing page (the link with the bulb 😃).
Outlook
Current development is heading towards Release 3.10 which focuses on further enhancements and features for Questionnaire Management. We might have an intermediate minor release 3.9.6 in between. We are also working hard on our new FHIR Profile Editor utilizing FHIR Shorthand (FSH), here a sneak preview.
At the same time we are currently also working on the ART-DECOR Release 4 series. This will imply a big update on the frontend as we switch to Vue 3, also the backend will make use of the new eXist-db Database Release v6.4.0.
As you can see: more on that to come. Thank you for your patience. Stay tuned.